The statement, "The center of the Earth must be made of pudding because no one has shown that it is not" represents a(n) _____ argument.
A) ad hominem
B) ad ignorantiam
C) ad populum
D) postconventional

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The argument falls under the fallacy of "ad ignorantiam" or "appeal to ignorance" because it is based on the absence of evidence to provide a conclusion. It assumes that the absence of evidence is the evidence of absence.

The Statement, "The Center of the Earth Must Be Made